Council of State of Cuba
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The Council of State is a thirty-one member body of the Republic of Cuba elected by the National Assembly of People’s Power. It has the authority to exercise most legislative power between sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power, subject to its approval, and to call the National Assembly of People’s Power into session between its scheduled twice yearly sessions. The membership consists of a President, a Secretary, a First Vice President, five Vice Presidents, and twenty-three additional members. The President, the Secretary, the First Vice President, and the five Vice Presidents are also members of the Council of Ministers.
Council of State members
As elected by the National Assembly in 2003| Position | Member
|
| President | Fidel Castro |
| First Vice President | Raul Castro |
| Vice President | Juan Almeida Bosque |
| Vice President | Abelardo Colomé Ibarra |
| Vice President | Carlos Lage Dávila |
| Vice President | Esteban Lazo Hernández |
| Vice President | José R. Machado Ventura |
| Secretary | José M. Miyar Barrueco |
| Director of the William Soler Hospital | Nidia Diana Martínez Piti |
| Vice Dean of the Salvador Allende Faculty | María T. Ferrer Madrazo |
| Director of Santiago de Cuba Education | Marta Hernández Romero |
| Member of the Political Bureau of the PCC | José R. Balaguer Cabrera |
| First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the PCC in Havana | Pedro Sáez Montejo |
| First Secretary of the National Committee of the Young Communist League | Otto Rivero Torres |
| Vice President of the Council of Ministers | Pedro Miret Prieto |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Felipe Pérez Roque |
| Minister of Basic Industry | Marcos Portal León |
| Minister President of the Central Bank of Cuba | Francisco Soberón Valdés |
| Member of the Council of State | Carlos Valenciaga Díaz |
| Director of the Jose Martí Program Office | Armando Hart Dávalos |
| President of the Casa de las Américas | Roberto Fernández Retamar |
| President of the Electronics Group | Ramiro Valdés Menéndez |
| First Vice President of the National Institure of Sports | Julio Cristhian Jiménez Molina |
| Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment | Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín |
| General Director of the Genetics and Biotechnology | Luis S. Herrera Martínez |
| Territorial Delegate of the Ministry of Science | Iris Betancourt Téllez |
| Secretary General of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions | Pedro Ross Leal |
| President of the Federation of Cuban Women | Vilma Espín Guillois |
| President of the National Association of Small Farmers | Orlando Lugo Fonte |
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